Establishing Sensible and Practical Guidelines for Desk Rejections.

Publishing has become, in several respects, more challenging in recent years. Academics are faced with evolving ethics that appear to be more stringent in a bid to reduce scientific fraud, the emergence of science watchdogs that are now scrutinizing the published literature with critical eyes to hol...

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Publicado en:Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 24; no. 4; pp. 1347 - 1366
Autores principales: Teixeira da Silva, Jaime A., Al-Khatib, Aceil, Katavić, Vedran, Bornemann-Cimenti, Helmar
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Publicado: Springer Nature Aug2018
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          Faculty of Dentistry, Jordan University of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 3030, 22110, Irbid, Jordan
          Department of Anatomy, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Šalata 11, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia
          Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Auenbruggerplatz 29, 8036, Graz, Austria
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        Literature rejected for publication
        Prevention of fraud in science
        Guidelines
        Science publishing
        Scholarly peer review
        Quality control
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          Literature rejected for publication
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          Science publishing
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      ab: Publishing has become, in several respects, more challenging in recent years. Academics are faced with evolving ethics that appear to be more stringent in a bid to reduce scientific fraud, the emergence of science watchdogs that are now scrutinizing the published literature with critical eyes to hold academics, editors and publishers more accountable, and a barrage of checks and balances that are required between when a paper is submitted and eventually accepted, to ensure quality control. Scientists are often under increasing pressure to produce papers in an increasingly stringent publishing environment. In such a climate, timing is everything, as is the efficiency of the process. Academics appreciate that rejections are part of the fabric of attempting to get a paper published, but they expect the reason to be clear, based on careful evaluation of their work, and not on superficial or unsubstantiated excuses. A desk rejection occurs when a paper gets rejected even before it has entered the peer review process. This paper examines the features of some desk rejections and offers some guidelines that would make desk rejections valid, fair and ethical. Academics who publish are under constant pressure to do so quickly, but effectively. They are dependent on the editors’ good judgment and the publisher’s procedures. Unfair, unsubstantiated, or tardy desk rejections disadvantage academics, and editors and publishers must be held accountable for wasting their time, resources, and patience.
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